A Would-be Legend who Didn’t Make It To Her Prime
So I love the rapper Chynna (@chizzyano) on instagram, it’s still hard for me to listen to her songs and think about her way too untimely demise. The potential she shows in her 3 released projects sounds beyond incredible to me and if you’re a fan of rap music, it would would be to you too, if you’d ever heard of her. But the problem is, she never made it to superstardom, which is fine, but whats not fine is, when I googled her name, the first 2 pages of Google were ONLY about how she died of drug overdose. Not a single result was about her music, except one from #Pitchfork and even that was a “Songs to Remember her By”.
It Is true that Chynna died way too young, at only 25, but she was making records since she was 16 and in those wonderful years, she made some classic tracks, some of the best lyricism and flow I’ve experienced in any new artist for a long time. Just listen to her favorite track of mine “Leo Season” and you’ll get it.
Chynna was special.
Just listen to the smooth flow of lyrics in this song. Pitchfork wrote “Chynna runs through tongue-twister bars in a menacing whisper, conjuring up haunting images with Azealia Banks-like wordplay.” And —
“It’s a lowkey banger, even if its coldness seems out-of-step with the cheery, cosmic alignment. But with “leo season,” Chynna proves that Leos can shine without showboating.” I don’t fully agree, I think she was showing the world how to be subtle while showboating.
But the internet, being what it is, is covered with only the ‘Shocking Death Overdose’ of yet another rapper and nothing in those articles is about her actual music.
So I thought I’d write one. Rest In Peace, Chizzyano. You will be missed.
